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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
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III wanted to get good square
judgment ON something had done,
/ had rather go toa newspaper Office
for it than any other court of justices
/ know the Justice Of Journals, their
integrity and their purity of motives.
I know that they probe into mems
characters. No man whose charae-
ter is pare need fear all the press
in America The way TO be safe
from so-called newspaper attacks is
to be Christian. The reporters
are the best detective force in the
country. They have brought more
criminals to justice and punctured
more shams than all agencies COM
bined.-Reo. SAM Jones.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
WHAT AILs THE Ka11ORa
Tho Average Length of Life De
creasfng- Not Pestilence-
Not Famine -An our
own FauIt.
own Fault.

MODERN CooK1Na AND Mop
ERN LIv1NG have brought it
on. 1t comes upon Us una
wares. The patients have
pains about the chest and sides,
and sometimes in the back.
They feel dull and sleepy; the
mouth has a bad taste, especi-
ally in the morning. A sort
of sticky slime collects about
the teeth. The appetite is poor.
There is a feeling like a heavy
load on the stomach: sometimes
a faint, all-gone sensation at
the pit of the stomach which
food does not satisfy. The
eyes are sunken, the hands
and feet become cold and feel
clammy. After a while q
cough sets in, at first dry, but
after q few months it is at
tended with a greenish colored
expectoration. The patient
feels tired all the while, and
sleep does not seem to afford
any rest. After time he be-
comes nervous, irritable and
gloomy, and has evil forebod-
ings. There is a giddiness, a
sort of whirling sensation in
the head when rising up sud
denly. The bowels become
costive; the skin is dry and
hota times; the blood becomes
thick and stdgnant; the whites
of the eyes become tinged With
yellow; the kidney secretions
becomes scanty AID E:g!e col
ored, Gcpositng a sediment
after standing. There Is ire
quently a spltting up of the
food, sometimes with a sour
taste and sometimes with a
sweetish taste; this is fire.
quently attended with palpi-
tation OF the heart and Ash
matte symptoms; the vision be-
comes impaired, with spots be-
fore the eyes; there is q feel
ing of great prostration and
weakness. AL OF these symp-
toms are in turn present. It
is thought that nearly one-half
of our population has this dis
ease in some of its varied forms.
Shaker Extract of Roots (Sei-
gels Syrup changes the fer
ments OF the Digestive organs so
asto convert the food we eat into
q form that will give nourish-
ment to the feeble body, and
good health is the consequence.
The effect of this remedy is
simply marvellous. Millions
upon millions of bottles have
been sold in this country, and
the testimonials in favor of its
curative powers are over
whelming. Hundreds of So
called diseases under various
names are the result of indi-
gestion, and when this one
trouble is removed the other
diseases vanish, for they are
but symptoms of the real
malady
Testimonials from thousands
of people speaking highly of
its curative properties prove
this beyond q doubt. Sold by
dIuegi1:.a
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

The Baltimore ,Snt in comment
ing upon the management of the
West Virginia Hospital for the In
sane, says: The report of the late
board showed the annual expenses
of each inmate to be only s113 per
year, including everything. This
is the most economically admins
tered asylum in this country.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

"When, as in our own country,
we find the total vote almost evenly
divided between two great parties,
remarks the New Orleans Picayune,
ait is absurd to claim that all the
public virtue of the natiou is con
fined to one of them, and all the
corruption to the other. The prob
ability is that the majority in both
parties desire pure and economical
government. that the difference
between them is only question of
Judgment as to the proper ways and
means of reaching that end. The
corruption of parties means nothing
more than the corruption of their
management. When the dominant
party falls under ring rule and is
controlled absolutely by machine,
it is no longer subject to the will OF
its majority, but is in effect simply
the instrument of despotic oligar-
chy, In such case corruption be
comes easy"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
Absent Mindedness.

Have you got a high-spirited
eyes, SIR returned the livery
man.
"one of those regular tearers ?"
eyes"
''I am glad to hear it. Now if
you'll hitch up slow nag that has to
be licked to go ten feet, I'll take him
out.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
Boom-Building in the West.

a correspondent of the Pittsburg
Commercial Gd<ette writing from
Kansas tells how the boom is built
in that and other Western States
The boom town is described as the
creation of speculations, helped on
by railroad companies having inn
mence stretches of subsidy lands
to dispose of. Taking solid found
alton, it happens that the towns so
created are mushrooms. and in the
end somebody is going to be left to
hold the bag.
The interest of the railroad and
other boomers lying beyond, East
ern Kansas, with its advantages of
soil, rain, nearness to market, roads,
churches, schools and all that goes
with an older civilization, is passed
over, though lands in that part of
the State sell for "prices rediculously
below those in the western counties. "
That which is true of the parts of
Kansas is true in like manner of
corresponding parts of the country.
In the one State of West Virginia,
for example, there is more solid
foundation to build on than in any
of the commonwealth of the great
West The almost unlimited natural
resources OF the State invite the
farmer, the grazer, the miner, the
manufacturer; there is something
for everybody, only waiting to be
utilized. But tho development of
the great West has been encouraged
by the great land grant railroads
and western speculation has been
made fashionable.
Superior lands in West Virginia
sell for prices so rediculously low
that it sounds like libel on natur-
ally rich State to name them. The
turn of the tide is not far off, and
then there will be some weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth
among those West Virginians who
have lacked the shrewdness to pick
up good thing when they stumbled
over it. There are thousands OF
acres in this State that have more
in them for investment than half
the lands that are being doomed in
| the West.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

1t takes three weeks to- perform a
marriage ceremony among the upper
classes in Japan, and we don't see
how the editor ofa daily paper in
that country finds time to get unit
ed in the holy bonds of wedlock., ;,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Journalists get more free advice
than any other class of people, and it
is not strange that newspapers have
advice left over, which they can at.
ford to give away.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
LTncofn's Iron Wedge.

A rusty iron wedge, with the
initials "A. L. rudely stamped upoiI
it, was recently found in an axcfent
house near Old Salem. 1t has been
recognized by former companions of
Abe Lincoln as the famous wedge
which he used ii splitting rails in
that vicinity. The initials were made
by Lincoln himself, in the presence
of 20 Spears, now resident of
TaIula.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

The Labor Adrocate remarks. tsAu
the coal mines on the Kanawha and
New rivers are in full operation and
the miners are making good wages
at most places. The best of feeling
exists and there seems to be dispo-
sition on the part of both miner and
operator to be reasonable, and work
to each others interests. This is as
it should be, and marks new era in
our mining district. ="
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

The best Lamp Burners will also be all great
kinds the best the Leader the ckok Cal
cun aud the Eectric while the celebrated ghtning Lamp
the best iuminator this country and LIGHT what all
need
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

81 tell you, it's all nonsense, sid
the editor, after selling six sacks OF
declined manuscripts to the junk
dealer, and sorting over eleven dol
lars worth ot. unused postage stamps
Its all nonsense to contend that
there are no profits in literature
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
ArroRNzYs.
JOHN w. ENGLISH,
ATTORNEY 1T LAW,

Point Pleasant, w. Va,
WILL practice in the County of Ma
w son; the United States District Court
;or West Virginia, and in the Supreme
Court of Appeals of this State. Office in
Court House. jan 3, 1888.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Mr.. CLEvELAND's STRENGTH.
Hon. Algernon S. Sullivan, IL prom
trent New York politician, is quoted
as saying: II think Mr. Cleveland
is to-day stronger with the. Demo
cratic masses in New York than he
ever was, and that the leaders in the
circle of party politics have no ma
lignant opposition to him. They
will concede that in the main his
administration has been greatly to
the honor of Democracy and to the
benefit of the country There will
be no detection at the polls. You
may rely upon it Mr. Cleveland can
carry New York even against the
most popular Republican in tiny
friend whom like very much, Mr.
Chauncey NJ. Depew."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

In Stationery good will be kept both
and by the que those wanting something unusually
should try "Cranes Extra Superfne Low priced goods this
line also on sale.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
EMERsON's DAUGHTER.
Her sturdy Independence and
Disregard of Silly Convent
innnIiSnnS

Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, is as Independent
in her movement as her father was
in thought. She was out walking
the other day when it began to rain
heavily Along came rustic horse
dragging swill cart, with a conven-
tional country boy on the rough
plank that served for the drivers
seat. Miss Emerson calmly stopped
the cart and climbed up to the plank
beside the driver, and rode home as
fast as the boy could make the ami
NAL 90. The conventional part of
Concord, and that is the greater
part, looked out of misty windows
in horror. But the proper people
thers have long since grown accus-
toned to more peculiar sight than
the daughter of the philosopher on
Il swill cart Miss Emerson has a
donkey, the gift OF a friend, upon
which she lavishes considerable eff
fection. She has horses and carri-
ages, but whenever it suits her fancy
she has the donkey saddled and
brought to the door. There she
mounts him and rides unreservedly
about town. She is so tall and the
donkey so short that she has to hold
up her feet to prevent them from
dragging on the ground Visitors
to concord who have not been ia
miliar with donkey riding in Europe,
where the habit is coparatively
common, find the sight entertaining.
~. y Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Banjos Guitars Accordeons and Harp
always hand Strings in variety, both
Among the best the "Rusan Gut and the "Phharmonc
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Henry W. Grady writes of CIeve-
lands prospects: "The South is
more than satisfied with his record,
and there will not be division oi
sentiment in any State from Virginia
to Texas ON the question of his re-
nomination. He will carry every
State in the South into the conven-
ton and will not lose half dozen
delegates. In the Electoral College
he will not lose single vote from
the South
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Bishop Peterkin has been chosen
Chaplain of the Parkersburg Post.
Travellers Association. The Bishop
travels for house larger than that y,
all the other members ofthe ssoeia-
ton combined.-Parkers6urg Jour
nal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

The New York Sun says that "A
careful Inquiry shows that for the
current year q ,347 miles of new
railroad track are projected, of which
the laying of over 10000 miles is
assured. OF old track on less than
$4,000 miles will be relaid. The
gigantic construction viii require
three and quarter million of tons
of steel rails, and it is easy to inter
from these facts what, for the en-
suing twelve months, viii be the
general condition, North and South,
of the iron trade But the same story
is told on all sides-a year of ex-
traordinary prosperity and year
OF speculation wholly uneXafnpled4 .
Under decision of the Supreme
Court ofthe United Safes, that large,
lively and enterprising body of bust
ness men who style themselves sscom=
mercial travellers" but who are
generally known by the musical
designation ofssdrummer, may now
and hereafter travel in and through
all the States of the Union without
being subjected to the expense and
annoyance OF local license and tax
laws.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

The Rait,cay Neles says; ssThe
man who would rob an editor is too
mean to live, and then it adds:
" Most Of the stealing in Florida is
done by the real estate agents.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Gen. w. W. Averill, who was one
of the most dashing and gallant cav
airy commanders in the Union army
during the late war, has accepted an
invitation to participate in the cere-
monies of Confederate Decoration
Day at Staunton, Va, on the 9Th of
June.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

The democratic party can no lon
ger hold itself responsible for the
ruinous policy the Governor is now
pursuing, and the sooner it utterly
ignores both him and his act the
better twill be for it. There are
no corrupt combinations known to
the most cunning wire puller, that
he would not enter into to advance
his political schemes. West Virginia
is humiliated by her Governor,
standing upon the towers of her
beautiful capitol waving the red flag
of communism. Men and angels,
save us from the like again. Gttmer
Banner.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

notice, quality kept
here the Water White Headlight and those who have been
using past years will know
the best to be found and always the same giving clear bright
light, and no charrng of wicks
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
Changed Hands.
STORTZ HOTEL

LAS been renovated and refurnished
IL for the accommodation of guests
Free bus to and from all trains and
Rates $500 per tIay.
II. w. STERLING, Proprietor.
april 21-tf
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

KILLED.-Perry Kerwood's little
SIX year old boy was sitting en a
pie of R. R. ties on which some
men were at work. near RfpIev
last week when a portion of the
pile fell, one tie falling across tbe
body of the little fellow, causing
his death with am hour-Bnals.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Full stock Humphreys Homeopathic Specifics always hand;
all the principal Patent Medicines the best quality Drugs and
Chemicals nnumerbe little things that everybody expects
to find in a retail Drug Store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

& standing dish for the White
House morning meal; which. was
inaugurated by President Grant,
and of which he was inordinately
fond, and which is relished by Pres
ident Cleveland, is breakfast bacon
and fried apples. The method of
cooking the bacon and apples is to-
cut thin strips from 3 moderately
lean piece of well cured bacon of the
best quality and fry until brown and
crisp. Take dozen or more tart
hard apples, greetings preferfedS
peal and slice into eights; fry IN
some of the fat of the bacon until
they are well Drowned. Place tho
mass on fiat dish over straincf,,
and with fork lay the strips of ba-
con comparatively dry upright
around tho fried apples The fat
strains from the apples and bacon.
The apples are thus relieved from
the excessive richness of the bacon
juice.
Do you owe us anything If
you do you will kindly get UP and
hump your selves, hustle around
and send us, if not all you owe, at
least part. There is limit to-
even an editors endurance. 1t costs
money to print paper, ink costs
money, the wearing away of the
gray tissue ofthe brain is purchased
Some people may be able to exist
on snowballs, and during the siege
of Paris hundreds of people lived on
on broth the nourishing qualities OF
which were drawn from boiled skate
straps. We can't do it; we have
tried it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
FOR SALE.

0ToRE House-24 feet by so feet, with
~ ware-room ] ] feet wide full length of
tore. Lot 66 feet front and sci feet
ep, on 9th street fronting Court House
rd- Good business location.
January 10th, 81. WAI. SMITH.
Jan. I2,-4w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04
EI.arllsle on Democracx.

AT a reception to John G. Car
lisle given blythe kentucky Demo
cratic Club in Covington, Mr. Car
Isle made a short speech, from
which the following extract is taken:
want to say to all Democrats
that we would be unworthy of our
name. if we allowed any number OF
reverses to dishearten us The
growth of the Democratic party in
the last % years has been wonder
full. the close of the war we were
entirelysont ofpower, we had no of
fees or patronage, and were prac-
tically ostraeised from share in the
affairs of the government The
Democracy had political faith
founded on the principles of Jeffer-
son, and they fought for it gallantly
without hope of reward. There has
never been a time since 1876 when
the majority of the people We're not
in favor of the principles of the
Democratic party. / want to inn
press upon you the necessity ofstand-
ing tpiYoIlr princip pies in any emer-
gency and at all elections, no matter
how small and unimportant they
may seem to be. No party can be
successful in any county unless it
has principles upon which it will
stake its existence before the people.
The country is full of vargaries on
the powers of government Some
want it to become Il great elemosy-
nary institution for the care of every
body; some want it to purchase the
railroads and telegraph lines; some
want it to interfere with the peoples
private business; some want it to
loan money to INDECENT people. 1t
is impossible to enumerate the
schemes to rob the Taxpayers for
the benefit of somebody else. We
mnst overcome the Socialistic theo-
fries abroad in the land. We must
stand everywhere for the protect
ion of both capital and labor. We
must stand everywhere for the rights
of men to do business in their own
way. Ifthe Democratic party does
not do this it might as we'll cease to
exist
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

can't find everything in the world here that might be called
Drug Store but effort will be made keep such
medicines wanted and if hand will be got
possible
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-05-04

Great works are accomplished
slowly.
Bent County register., 1887-09-10
From the Denver Journal


Over $4,000 is to be expended IN
,he rebaldins of the Lamar stock
yards. Santa Fe switches will be
built.
Twenty fve thousand pounds of
oats were sacked by firm in Gree
ley day last week.
The LongmoIt Creamery turns ont
daily 200 posnds OF batter and 500
pounds of cheese.
A. Lupton cabbage grower has al
ready shipped twenty carloads of
cabbage at sixty cents per handred.
Oats averaging forty-eigAt bushels
TO the sore are marketing at For.
Collins
The A. T. & s. Fe road is to have
extensive stock yards at lamar.
Peaches grown in Monsezuraa Val
ley measure eight inches and half.
Roads leading TO Greeley are
crowded with wheat teams.
Lamar believes gas and oil TO exist
in large quantities in that locality.
Bent County register., 1887-09-10

FROM the Texas siftings-
Colonial Yerger's eldest son, Percy
Yerger, Jr., does not show any ambi-
ton to make his mark in the world.
He is lazy and trifing, SO Colonel
Yerger had serious talk with him
recently.
"Percy, my son." said the old man
"what IS to become of you2"
81 dunno"
"You are not smart enough to be
= lawyer or preacher, aud you are
too lazy to work, now what profess
ION OF rade do you think would suit
you?"
"Well, If Pve got to be something,
I reckon I'd rather be retired array
officer with pension than anything
else. A general would about suit
me"
There are, however, two sides TO
the Indian question, viz: A right and
wrong side. That Is why the In-
dian question wears so well. Ono of
,he great wrongs incident to the
matter is the great delay IN officially
reaching the War Department in
such way as to attract the eye of
the speaker. By the time courier
can get into a telegraph station and
wire the Governor Of State, who
notifies the Adjutant-General to write
dictated letter with his trenchant
typewriter, appraislng the command
er of the department, who is at Co
ney Island or Carlsbad, with no type
writer nearer than fifteen miles, who
wires the Governor to make active
inquiries about the matter; and by
the time the Governor has sent n
committee, who go within fifty miles
of the scene of hostilities and return
at the end of six weeks to report that
they do not know whether there has
been an outbreak or not, and then
when a ranchman is really killed,
and reputable eye-witnesses, who
were personally acquainted with de-
ceased, and viii swear that they have
no interest in the result of the out
break, come IN and make q written
and grammatical request of troops,
and the War Department gets thor
oughly rested, and Indians have gone
home, washen the gore off their
hand and resume their qaiet, hum
drum life. Like trying to treat
man in Liverpool for softening of
the brain by apply the mind cure by
cable from New York, the remedy il
too remote from the disease.
Indians are quick and impulsive
in the matter of homicide. They
are slow to grapple with anything
of humorous nature, and all the
humorous lecturers who have been
on the Ute lecture course have lost
money, but in the holocaust line or
general arson, torture and massacre
business they act with astonishing
rapidity. As a race they regard this
entire land as their own, just as the
mosquitoes claim New Jersey, simply
because they were there first. The
Indians see that the property is i'm
proving and SO they feel more and
more wealthy and arrogant. They
claim that they will never give up
their rights unless they get hard up,
and even then it will not count.
They always have mental reserva-
tion In these matters which they pre-
fer to the reservation provided by
the Government. Indians naturally
dislike to see their lands in the pos
session of wealthy men whose sons
earn precarjous livelihood by play
ing lawn tennis. Colorow once
made short speech to bis troops
which was taken down at the time
by gentleman who was present and
who was collecting material for a
new third reader for our common
schools Bill Nye.
Bent County register., 1887-09-10

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Bent County register., 1887-09-10

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